Oleena Mak

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Nevertheless, it’s worth saying at least a few words, while keeping in mind that the brevity of this section is not at all to be taken as a sign that I don’t take these issues seriously—on the contrary, it is a sign of a lack of clear answers.
Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving Grace
We are not used to thinking in this way—to asking “how much does being smarter help with this task, and on what timescale?”—but it seems like the right way to conceptualize a world with very powerful AI.
Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving Grace
powerful AI (I dislike the term AGI)
Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving Grace
The result often ends up reading like a fantasy for a narrow subculture, while being off-putting to most people.
Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving Grace
Avoid grandiosity. I am often turned off by the way many AI risk public figures (not to mention AI company leaders) talk about the post-AGI world, as if it’s their mission to single-handedly bring it about like a prophet leading their people to salvation. I think it’s dangerous to view companies as unilaterally shaping the world, and dangerous to view practical technological goals in essentially religious terms.
Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving Grace
But I am aiming for at least educated and useful guesses, which capture the flavor of what will happen even if most details end up being wrong. I’m including lots of details mainly because I think a concrete vision does more to advance discussion than a highly hedged and abstract one.
Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving Grace
I think that most people are underestimating just how radical the upside of AI could be, just as I think most people are underestimating how bad the risks could be.
Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving Grace
I’m a pessimist or “doomer” who thinks AI will be mostly bad or dangerous
Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving Grace
The company I’m the CEO of, Anthropic
Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving Grace
Why Omnichain Tokens Matter
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How Omnichain Tokens Work
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fragmenting the user experience
Why Omnichain Tokens Matter. This is part one of a series that dives… | by LayerZero | LayerZero Ecosystem | Sep, 2024 | Medium
What sets us apart is our unique position within the Sony Group ecosystem. By leveraging Sony Group's vast global distribution network across entertainment, finance, electronics, and gaming, we have an unprecedented opportunity to introduce blockchain technology to global users
Introducing Soneium by Sony Block Solutions Labs for the Future of Web3 | Soneium
Specifically, we will study the protection of rights to creativity created by creators, new mechanisms for returning profits to support creators and fans, and opportunities for creators to be active across the digital and real worlds
Introducing Soneium by Sony Block Solutions Labs for the Future of Web3 | Soneium
Here, innovation overcomes social, economic, and regional constraints, allowing every idea to flourish
Introducing Soneium by Sony Block Solutions Labs for the Future of Web3 | Soneium
“Realize the Open Internet that Transcends Boundaries.”
Introducing Soneium by Sony Block Solutions Labs for the Future of Web3 | Soneium
competitive features in the existing Ethereum layer 2 landscape
Introducing Soneium by Sony Block Solutions Labs for the Future of Web3 | Soneium
Soneium will connect the blockchain technology (Web3) with the everyday internet services (Web2). This connection will make things easier for users, helping more people start using blockchain.
Introducing Soneium by Sony Block Solutions Labs for the Future of Web3 | Soneium
By extension, this means that the most important factor determining success is the user experience: the best distributors/aggregators/market-makers win by providing the best experience, which earns them the most consumers/users, which attracts the most suppliers, which enhances the user experience in a virtuous cycle.
Aggregation Theory – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
protocolization is when things get more convenient, but you don’t have to give up additional political agency for it.
Magic, Mundanity and Deep Protocolization
But Apple’s version of protocolization is faux-protocolization, because it controls the entire user experience on its platforms dictatorially, and you only get this kind of frictionlessness where it is in Apple’s interests to provide it.
Magic, Mundanity and Deep Protocolization
"Listen! The world only exists in your eyes—your conception of it. You can make it as big or as small as you want to. And you're trying to be a little puny individual. By God, if I ever cracked, I'd try to make the world crack with me.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Essay The Crack-Up, From Esquire 1936
I realized that in those two years, in order to preserve something—an inner hush maybe, maybe not—I had weaned myself from all the things I used to love—that every act of life from the morning toothbrush to the friend at dinner had become an effort.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Essay The Crack-Up, From Esquire 1936
I must hold in balance the sense of futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction of the inevitability of failure and still the determination to "succeed"—and, more than these, the contradiction between the dead hand of the past and the high intentions of the future.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Essay The Crack-Up, From Esquire 1936
the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Essay The Crack-Up, From Esquire 1936
However, in the business world, leaders often engage in what is called “co-optition.” For example, Apple and Samsung are ruthless competitors in selling high-end smartphones. But who is a major supplier of components for Apple’s smartphones? Samsung. When Apple’s CEO Tim Cook is asked how one of his major competitors can also be his major supplier of components, he says, “Life is complicated.”
China vs. America: The Geopolitical Olympics | The National Interest
Americans—including this author—believe that the international security order the United States constructed in the aftermath of World War II and has been the guardian of in the decades since then has been a remarkable era in human history.
China vs. America: The Geopolitical Olympics | The National Interest
As of August 9, the United States has won thirty gold medals, compared to China’s thirty-two. In the total medal count, the U.S. athletes now have gained 104 and their Chinese competitors seventy-seven.
China vs. America: The Geopolitical Olympics | The National Interest
While these programs aim to support startups, they often create a comfort zone that prevents companies from scaling effectively. The initial barriers to starting a company in Canada are low, allowing many to begin operations with minimal funding. However, once the company gets the initial injection of money, its path should be simple: find a product-market fit and make money or fail.
Why Canadian Startups Fail to Scale - by Sergey Gorbunov
In the past decade, the United States has seen the emergence of 656 unicorns, compared to only 21 in Canada (World Population Review).
Why Canadian Startups Fail to Scale - by Sergey Gorbunov
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
Galileo Galilei: Biography, Inventions & Other Facts | Space